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Robert Graves’s Mythopoetic Hospitality: Translating The Rubaiyyat of Omar Khayaam

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This article draws on poetry criticism, translation studies and, briefly, hospitality studies to revisit the controversial translation of The Rubaiyyat of Omar Khayyam by Robert Graves and Omar Ali-Shah. Graves took an interest in Sufism, especially as a ‘force of mental power which could be created by telepathic communication’, and worked together with the Shah brothers to dislodge Fitzgerald’s nineteenth-century best-selling version and replace it with what was intended to be a founding text of twentieth-century Western Sufism, a ‘secondary original’. Nevertheless, the poet polymath had his own agenda, an act of mythopoetic hospitality that the controversy should not be allowed to overshadow.
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hal-03954988 , version 1 (01-04-2023)

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Sara Greaves. Robert Graves’s Mythopoetic Hospitality: Translating The Rubaiyyat of Omar Khayaam. The Robert Graves Review, 2022, Michael Joseph (ed.), 1 (2). ⟨hal-03954988⟩
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